The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

You ought to write grateful gratitude every day

A trap, like a goodstory, needs to hint at greater things without revealing themuntil the prey is snared.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

Peeple of zee wurl, relax